Ert and Bernie in Fall Break

October 10 is National Cake Decorating Day. 
One of Jeremy's earliest memories is of a Bert and Ernie cake for his birthday.  A while ago Jeremy's mom gave us that Bert and Ernie cake pan.
Jeremy and I have zero formal cake decorating experience.  We have really been wanting to try that Bert and Ernie cake, so we thought National Cake Decorating Day would be the perfect opportunity to make it.  So we got the tips, the decorating bags, etc.  And we made the cake.

This is how it is supposed to look:

This is how our cake looked:

Can't tell a difference, can you?  Ha Ha Ha.  It's okay.  You can laugh, too.  Did I mention we have limited cake decorating experience?  Obviously we have some things to learn.  When we realized it wasn't going to look like we wanted it to, we gave up on using the tips and bags and took butter knives with frosting/icing to the rest of it.
But it was a good experience.  Now we have some ideas of things to look up before we start next time.  And eventually we'll get it right- the consistency of the frosting/icing.  Here's what our first decoration looked like on wax paper.

So, we know we piped it right.  It will just take some more trial and error.  But we'll get it.

We did this while the kids were in school, so when Jr. came home, he went into the kitchen and spied it.
Jr.:  Ooh, that looks... [long pause]... yummy.  That looks like what you were going to make.
What a nice kid.
Later he gave his advice.
Jr.:  Maybe we could name the cake, "Ert and Bernie in Fall Break."
(Fall Break from school starts tomorrow for the kids).  And later,
Jr.:  And if we make another Ert and Bernie cake in Winter, we can name it "Ert and Bernie in Winter."

So, if not before, it looks like we'll be trying this again in the Winter.  Wish us luck.